Josh Bloch is a well known Java visionary and speaker. In
addition to
his numerous contributions to the JDK, which include the Java util
collections library, he has served on a number of JSRs such as 166
(Concurrency Utilities), 175 (Metadata, or annotations) and 201
(Enumerations, Autoboxing, the new for loops and static importing).
Josh has also written two books on Java: "Effective Java" (which won a
jolt award), and "Java Puzzlers" (the latter with Neal Gafter). He
currently works for Google having moved there from Sun after the
release of Java 5.

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Cameron Purdy is the President of Tangosol, a company that
specializes in Extreme Scalable Performance through In-Memory Caching,
Data Management and Grid Computing, and makers of Coherence, which is
written in Java. He provides a very low level viewpoint on the language
from an unrelenting focus on performance and portability.

"If you're already on Mac OS X, that means WebObjects is
effectively free. If you weren't, just buy a Mac mini for $499 and
pretend WO's price has been dropped by $200 and they're now throwing in
a server (grin)."